terly Register will give one of its readers | ed for nearly ten years with considerable pleasure, if you think it worthy a place success to an increasing congregation-the there. Pray to God for us, on behalf of bulk of which, however, are farmers' lathis humble attempt, that he may be pleased bourers from the surrounding villages, many to crown it with his blessing. Accept the of whom, I trust, are rich in faith, but very best wishes of, dear Sir, your obedient ser- poor in this world, and not able to spare a vant, W. G. Secretary of the Walworth shilling for the cause-since I have been Auxiliary. here I have baptized 105 persons, and we have had during the past year several notable instances of conversion to God,-so that some are now waiting and expect soon to follow the Lord in his appointed ordi We have learned since, that the most happy effects have followed such endeavours both in London, and in country Towns. Let our readers ask what doth hinder them from doing likewise? RECENT CORRESPONDENCE. My Dear Sir, I have the pleasure of saying that, my friend, Mr. Grimes is very attentive to his work, and I hope he is not without evident intimations of the divine approbation. He preaches twice every Lord's day at Creake, and superintends the Sabbath school. On Monday evenings he conducts a prayermeeting, on Thursday evenings he preaches at Creake, and on Friday exenings he visits the workhouse to preach, converse, read and pray with the inmates. On Tuesday evenings he preaches at Syderstone, and on Wednesday evenings occasionally at Sculthorpe. At Creake he proceeds in a regular course of visiting; and is respectfully received in almost every house, and listened to with attention. For piety and diligence he is universally esteemed. As stated before, his congregation at Creake has increased to upwards of 300 hearers; and, the pious part of them, who are united in church-membership, are walking together in peace and comfort, and, I trust, are improving in real piety. May this little band become a thousand! Without the aid of your Society, this station could not be supplied. The people are very poor, and cannot contribute more than 127. or 157. yearly towards the support of Mr. Grimes, who devotes his whole time to ministerial labours, and has no resources besides the above contributions, and your donations, for which, in his behalf, I beg to offer the warmest thanks, and remain, my dear Sir, yours affectionately, D. THOMPSON. I am happy to find that Mr. Grimes is so much esteemed, that even the resident clergyman at Creake exhorts the sick of his flock to listen to the instructions of Mr. Grimes, when he visits them. Otley, June 14, 1827, Suffolk. My station is in the village of Otley, where through divine favour I have labour nances. "These are the joys he lets us know; In fields and villages below, Gives us a relish of his love, But keeps his noblest feast above." I preach regularly in four other villages— namely, Framsden, Ash-Bocking, Gosbeck, and Clopton, and occasionally in several others. And if these houses were not be all entirely destitute of a gospel ministry, opened, the poor benighted inhabitants would for there is not the slightest resemblance of it in the parish churches. We have three prayer-meetings in the week at different houses-and one Sunday school in which we have 104 children. I have never received any assistance tobut from your society, and should now much words the expenses of village-preaching, rather be a contributor, but I am compelled once more to solicit your aid. I remain, &c. JAMES COLE. Falmouth, January 10th, 1821. As one of the minutes passed at our last Committee Meeting, held at Helston, the 2d instant, may, perhaps, influence the arrangemnts into which you may enter next Tuesday, (which, if I am rightly informed, is the day appointed for making your annual arrangements with the agents), I hasten to lay it before you :— "The enquiry of the Secretary to the Parent Society relative to the occasion of Mr. Crossman's wish to remove, and to the opinion which the Committee still entertain of his piety, talents, and diligence, as á Home Missionary," having been read, it was unanimously resolved, That the recommendation of Mr. Crossman's removal, by the Committee, arose out of the unmerited and violent opposition on the part of two individuals against him, in which affair the conduct of Mr. C. has considerably raised him in every respect in the opinion of the Committee; and that his qualifications as a Home Missionary have, particularly within the last three or four years, increased rather than diminished." K Having no other intelligence to communi- year, is constantly supplied whenever the cate respecting Mr. Crossman, excepting weather permits. Your mission alone supthat he has lately established a Prayer plies this island with the gospel, for it is Meeting at the village of Treveskin, on Sa- never visited by the agents of any other turday evenings, for which several persons Society, except the clergyman, who is somehad expressed considerable solicitude; I times four or five months without being pass on to Mr. Parson's station, in which the there. It is interesting from its peculiarly only circumstance of particular interest that isolated situation, and from its wants; and has transpired during the quarter is, "that the desire of the people to have “ the joyful recently, at Gwinear, a young man con- sound," amply repays all our exertions. nected with the mine has established a Sun- Neither is it destitute of piety; for there day School, which is held in the Baptist are a few who know the Lord even here, Meeting-house; there are at present about which proves he is not confined to situation. 200 poor children who attend." The fol- Sampson has only thirty-six inhabitants, lowing details are furnished by Mr. Rogers among whom Edward Webber resides, and of Scilly, which I transcribe for the satis- to all of whom he regularly preaches. He faction of the Committee. ". Nothing ma- also keeps a Sunday-school. The above is terial has occurred respecting our stations, a correct statement, as near as I can posnumber of hearers, &c., since my last com- sibly ascertain at present, of the stations munication to the Committee; but I will under my care: and while I am in these enumerate the several stations, and notice islands, every attention shall be paid to the particulars respecting each. St Mary's them, to further the design of the mission, is an important station, from its being the and the interest of our Lord and Saviour. centre of your mission in these islands, and from the necessity of gospel preaching; for although the Methodists have been established here for a great number of years, there is ample room for the exertions of your agent. Our attendance is large and respectable; and great attention is paid to the word preached, both in the town, and her parts of the island. Neither are we without some evidence of the Gospel being made a blessing; for several, from their deportment, attendance on the means of grace, and conversation, appear to have experienced a change of heart. Our prospect in this station are, therefore, sufficient to encourage renewed exertions for the cause of Christ. Trescow.-There is no Gospel preached in this island, (in the church excepted), but by your agent and his assistants; by whom public and private worship are regularly maintained in different parts: the congregations are very large, the meeting-house being oftentimes crowded to excess. Here we have a Sabbath-school of forty or fifty children; and, but for myself and coadjutors, hundreds of poor creatures would be entirely destitute of the word of life. Bryher.-In this place the people may be truly said to be hungering after the gospel; being always happy to receive the ministers, and anxious to hear the word. We have a Sabbath-school on this island of from twenty to thirty children; and the general prospects are very satisfactory indeed. St. Martin's is the principal station of the Bryanites; nevertheless we maintain our ground, and at the time of Monies received by the Treasurer since the worship great numbers attend. There is also a Sabbath-school, but I do not know exactly the present number of children. St. Agnes, which is very difficult and dangerous to visit at this season of the In reviewing the whole circumstances of another year, I can truly say, there is great cause for gratitude to God; and ground of encouragement to the Society and its agents, to persevere in their labours for the benefit of the people. The Gospel has been, and is preached; great numbers hear, and many are spiritually benefited. Many hundreds would be destitute of the means of salvation, but for the Baptist Mission; and a more interesting or important station cannot he found in the sphere of the Society's exertions. My assistants, Frank McFarland, Isaac Nicholls, and Edward Webber, are assiduously employed; and I can bear testimony to their zeal and exertions for the cause. We have also a person by the name of James Edwards, who is very useful indeed; and there is work enough for all. I ought to close my quarterly communications with a list of subscribers of this auxiliary; but not having received the details from several places, I must defer it to a future period. You will, I suppose, soon receive from our Treasurer a general statement of accounts for the year; but, like myself, he has not received from every place the necessary documents. Hoping that divine wisdom may direct the Society in all its plans, and that the spirit of grace may prosper all its operations, I remain, on behalf of the Auxiliary, Account in December last. £ s. d. 1 0 Francis, W. W. Esq. Colchester NOTICES. The next Quarterly Meeting of the Christian Instruction Society will be held, Providence permitting, at Surrey Chapel, on Tuesday evening, March 11, at half-past six, when the venerable Rowland Hill has kindly consented to preside. The Anniversary Meeting of the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Protestant Dissenting Ministers, instituted 1733, will be held on Wednesday, the 2d of April next, when a Sermon will be preached at the Old Jewry Chapel, removed to Jewin-street, Aldersgate-street, by the Rev. Wm. Orme, of Camberwell. Service to begin at twelve o'clock precisely, at the close of which, a report of the funds and the present state of the Charity will be made. The Friends of the Society will afterwards dine together at the Albion, in Aldersgate-street. 132 MONTHLY REGISTER. FOREIGN. cisions of reason and justice. The America. Our views for a consider-American law which has just been inable time past have been fixed upon the troduced for the suppression of this East; the affairs of the West have at- fashionable vice, makes duelling murder, tracted but little notice. The interest and consequently subjects the survivor, inspired by the struggles of incipient under any circumstances, to an ignoliberty in the southern continent, and minious death. It makes sending a the march of established independence challenge a high misdemeanour, punish. in the northern continent of America, able by fourteen years' imprisonment, have been merged in feelings of a more and inflicts upon seconds, aids, and even intense and home-felt character. The on the attending surgeons, a fine of 1000 message of the President to Congress, dollars each, in addition to being disis a document, however, which in the franchised and imprisoned until they quietest or most bustling scenes of the give sufficient security for their good beold world, invites our attention. The haviour. This is the fate of " genteel total debt of the States, it is estimated, gladiatorship" in America. When will now amounts to Sixty-seven and a half England rise to the same moral elevamillions of dollars, or about Fourteen tion? millions sterling. DOMESTIC. It is gratifying to find that the interruption of the colonial trade, has ex- Our readers will be gratified to find, cited no feelings of hostility, nor any that the renewed application of Protesirritation towards our government. The tant Dissenters to Parliament, expressed language of the President in reference in 1700 petitions, and after a lapse of to this country is peaceful and compli- 38 years, for the repeal of the Test and mentary, gratifying to our national Corporation Acts, has proved more sucvanity, and at the same time breathes cessful than on any former occasion. a spirit of simplicity and dignity not The motion was brought forward by unsuitable to the first Magistrate of a Lord John Russell, and seconded by Mr. great and growing Republic. John Smith, in two able speeches, worThe North American Congress ap- thy of the men and their cause. It was pears to be getting the start of our Par-supported by Lords Brecknock, Althorp, liament in that enlightened legislation Nugent, and Milton, Sir T. Acland, and which is congenial with the spirit of Messrs. Wilbraham and Ferguson. It civilized times. The law to abolish im- was opposed by Mr. Peel, Sir R. Inglis, prisonment for debt on mesne process in Mr. Huskisson, and Lord Palmerston. the United States, is a remarkable in- The argument of the two latter Genstance of legislative improvement among tlemen amounted to this-That we ought a people whose national existence, com- to do injustice to the Dissenters without pared with that of Great Britain, is but cause, that we may not do injustice to of yesterday. the Catholics without company. When the House divided, there were For the motion....... 237 Against it We are happy also to observe, that the American Congress has taken up the subject of duelling-that remnant of the same Gothic barbarism which substituted the ordeal of battle for the de 193 Majority in its favour 44 MARCH, 1828. THE Rev. Josiah Wilson, of Sligo, has sent letters, directed to those persons and Congregations in England, who support Schools bearing their names in Ireland. From these we have made extracts, which we doubt not will be read with interest. The letters have been sent to the persons for whom they were designed. The Committee have the last month appointed two more pious men as Itinerant Readers of the Irish Scriptures: this increases the number of Readers to 55, and will add £54 per annum to the expenditure. The general impression that prevails of the usefulness of such agents, and the liberal disposition manifested towards the Society, have encouraged them to conclude that they will be assisted to find support for such persons, however many may be raised up for the important service of reading and expounding the Irish Scriptures to their benighted fellow-countrymen. From the Rev. J. Wilson to the Secretaries. | &c. And I may add, that this has consi Sligo, Jan. 14, 1828. derably increased within the last few days, only bearing more of a political aspect. DEAR BRETHREN, And yet it will rejoice the friends of truth In addition to the journals of the Irish to learn, that in the midst of all the ferment Readers who are constantly employed, I truth is extending, and many individuals send some of the quarterly journals of the are brought under its powerful influence. Sabbath Readers; in both of which much Though attention to the Scripture Readers interesting matter will be found, as connect- is expressly and repeatedly forbidden by ed with the objects and operations of the many of the Roman Catholic priests, yet Society. I forward also the annual account numbers of persons evince a desire to hear of the Congregational Schools in my dis- the Scriptures read and explained, and trict, for the information of the kind contri-anxiously listen to those humble teachers of butors to their support; as some of them the word of God. And He whose glory is have evinced a desire to have a more specific connected with the honour he puts upon statement respecting them than can be given that word, is pleased to bless these means in the Report. The journals are calculated to the conversion of many. to excite considerable Interest, both as it respects the state of the country generally, and in reference to the exertions of the agents of the Society in particular. It will be seen from some of them, that there is a considerable excitement, not to say agitation, evident through the country, connected with great hostility against the advocates of education, the circulation of the Scriptures,} It will also be gratifying to the Committee to learn, that some of the schools that have been so long, and so violently, and so successfully opposed, are rising superior to that opposition, and many of the children are returning to them. Yours sincerely, J. WILSON. Congregational Free Schools in the District superintended by Mr. Wilson. |